Saucepan



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 L. J. PAINTER.

SAUGEPANL Patented D60. 31

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L. J. PAINTER.

SAUGEPAN.

- No. 552,390. Patented 139ml, 18%.

UNITED STATES PATE T GFFTCE.

LUDOVIC J. PAINTER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SAUCEPAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 552,390, dated December 31, 1895. Application filed May 10,1895. Serial No. 548,809. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LUDov1o J. PAINTER, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Saucepans, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certain improvements in saucepans of the class in which two bails are used to provide means for handling the saucepan with one hand.

The object of the improvements is to simplify and stiifen the construction as well as to cheapen the cost of manufacture.

To such end the invention consists in certain features of construction which will be clearly described and definitely claimed below.

The invention is illustrated in the drawings presented herewith by means of six figures, of which- Figure 1 is a lateral perspective of a saucepan provided with my improvements, showing the handles in a vertical position. Fig. 2 is also a lateral perspective, but shows the saucepan held in one hand and tilted or tipped half-way up to pour out the water therefrom. Fig. 3 is a similar perspective showing the saucepan tilted by a different manipulation. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the saucepan with the handle laid down upon the edge thereof. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the saucepan with the handle in the same position, and Fig. 6 is a view of the handle and bails in'the plane of the same. g

In the drawings the saucepan is lettered A, and the two bails B C, respectively, the same being pivoted to the saucepan at a slight distance apart to give the necessary purchase. The bail I3 follows the ordinary curve until it reaches the central portion where it is bent directly away from the saucepan a short distance to form two substantially straight portions I) b, and then again bent at about right angles to form another substantially straight portion 1). The second bail is a trifle shorter than the first and also has two substantially straight portions 0 extending directly away from the saucepan, at the end of which are two eyes a to receive the portions 11 of the other bail, and from these eyes the wire is bent directly back toward the saucepan to form two portions 0 and then at right angles across to form a central portion 0 which is ordinarily covered by a handle D. This handle and the portion Z) of the bail B furnish excellent means of grasping the bails in the hand. The curved side portions of the bail B engage with the eyes 0, as seen in Figs. 1 and 2, to prevent the bails from swinging farther to the left than seen in said figures. The portions 0 c and the eyes 0 of the bail 0 form loops which slide upon and are guided by the portions 1) of the bail B. These portions I) extend from the central part b of the bail B toward the bail O and are met substantially half-way by the loops 0, extending outward from the handle D. I prefer to make two loops and two guides, so that a pair of each may be arranged upon each side of the handle. I believe, however, that the same is not necessary to the invention, broadly considered, inasmuch as a single loop upon one bail extending toward the other and y a single guide upon the second bail and extending toward the first would answer one requirement of my inventionnamely, the bringing of the bails together with their handles into the smallest possible compass when in the position for packing which is shown in Fig. 4. It will be noticed from this figure that the loops upon the inner bail and the guiding portions therefor upon the outer bail lap one over another, so as to save room. Fig. 1 shows the handle portions of the two bails at the greatest distance apart and illustrates the advantage of having each one of the bails extended toward the other at the point of engagement. It is exceedingly important for the purpose of giving a good purchase to the hand in operating the saucepan, as shown in Fig. 2, that the two handles should be some little distance apart during such operation.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination with a saucepan or similar article, of two bails pivoted to the saucepan at points slightly apart, one of said bails being provided with one or more loops extending therefrom toward the other bail, and the second bail being provided with one or more guiding portions adapted to work in said loop and extending from said second bail toward the first to meet said loop at a point interb, at opposite ends thereof extending toward mediate between the handle portions of the the said loops; substantially as described.

two bails; substantially as described. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my 2. The combination with a saucepan, A, of hand, at Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, this 5 the two bails, B, C, pivoted to the saucepan 24th day of April, 1895.

at points slightly apart, one of said bails hav 1 ing the central portion, 0 and the loops at LUDOVIC opposite ends thereof extending toward the \Vitnesses:

second bail and the second bail having the CHAS. O. SHERVEY,

IO central portion, 1), and the guiding portions, A. I. H. EBBESEN. 

